So much Good Stuff today!
Bester: Mal. Whaddya need two mechanics for? Mal: I really don't.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 24, 2012 9:07:14 am PDT #19324 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Lee - Aug 24, 2012 9:14:27 am PDT #19325 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Right now, it looks like I’ll be starting work on Sept 4th, after Labor Day. One more week of freedom for me!
YAY! You should come back to SF to celebrate!
Hil R. - Aug 24, 2012 9:29:24 am PDT #19326 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My semester starts on Monday. I really should have gone into my office today to finish up my syllabus and get stuff organized, but my ankle is hurting a lot, and I'm drowsy from the Vicodin I took for it last night, so I figure I'll go in over the weekend to finish that stuff up.
Calli - Aug 24, 2012 9:38:56 am PDT #19327 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I love the fact that everything is literally stardust. And eventually we'll all be stars again.
"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
Consuela - Aug 24, 2012 10:25:15 am PDT #19328 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay Tom! Congratulations!
Liese S. - Aug 24, 2012 10:37:05 am PDT #19329 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Man, in wandering through the house gathering up electronics for tomorrow's electronics waste recycling event, it has become clear to me just how much storage space is being used on dead media. Like, cassettes, dead media. I need to make a concerted effort to digitize everything I want to keep. I could regain half a bookshelf, a closet and two cupboards if I just did that alone. I mean, what is my terabyte of storage space doing sitting there, if not to replace all this physical media?
Frankenbuddha - Aug 24, 2012 10:44:39 am PDT #19330 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Good news, Tom!
Consuela - Aug 24, 2012 10:51:35 am PDT #19331 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jodie Foster on the media frenzy about Kristen Stewart (in particular) and celebrity media culture in general: [link]
flea - Aug 24, 2012 11:15:39 am PDT #19332 of 30001
information libertarian
So fun: [link]
(Ha, I accidentally first pasted part of a Python tutorial about working with text files. So much less fun.)
Consuela - Aug 24, 2012 11:51:28 am PDT #19333 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Charlie Pierce is a national treasure (even if half the nation would rather he were gagged):
The Republican Party is shot through now with an impulse to disunion that is almost an autonomic reflex at this point. Every solution they can offer has behind it the iron certainty that we are better off as individuals, that the nation best operates as a simple, loose framework within which those individuals can operate, and not as something we create together so that our individual achievements can be rooted in something greater than ourselves.